Edmund Burke Video

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.

All political power is a trust.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.

The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Skepticism. The first step toward truth.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

You are indebted to your imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

You may all go to pot.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

I saw and loved.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Oh, my country! How I leave my country!

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betaken [i. e. , committed] to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individuals private rights.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

The beginning is always today.

It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!